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“Look at yourself. You’re turning into Fox News,” Maher wrote. “Bridgegate has become your Benghazi, and this isn’t easy to say, but you and I are no longer on the same news cycle. Sure, you read me the results of a recent Gallup poll, but you never really ask me how I’m feeling. It’s not you, it’s… Chris Christie.”

“I just wonder if it is too much. That’s all I was asking,” Maher said Friday referring to the post on his HBO program “Real Time with Bill Maher.”

“I am totally obsessed with the Christie story. Unapologetically. And will continue to be obsessed with it while amazing things in that story continue to happen,” Maddow said.

“It may be more coverage than you want,” Maddow said, but added that the bridge scandal is “just as good” as covering former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s corruption scandal.

While Maher said he’s “still actually in love with MSNBC” and the story is worth covering, he also noted that for a lot of the programs on the network, the bridge scandal is the top story every night, two months after it first broke.

The late-night host also walked back his comparison of Benghazi.

“I should have said that, yes, this is not the same as Benghazi,” Maher said. “Benghazi is nothing. There is no scandal there. This is an actual scandal, it’s just that it’s not Watergate. He’s not the president. He’s not even a guy who ever himself said he was going to be running for president.”

Maher asked whether the lane closures were “really that bad” and whether the coverage would be the same if it involved Democratic governor not close to New York.

Maddow argued that there still wasn’t an explanation for the closures and denied that she or the network were using the coverage to eliminate Christie’s chances for running in 2016.

“It’s not like we’re not covering other things,” Maddow said. ”It’s not every second of the day.”